Cerebral white matter integrity mediates adult age differences in cognitive performance

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 289-302

  Madden, David J ^a   Spaniol, Julia ^a   Costello, Matthew C ^a   Bucur, Barbara ^a   White, Leonard E ^a   Cabeza, Roberto ^a   Davis, Simon W ^a   Dennis, Nancy A ^a   Provenzale, James M ^a   Huettel, Scott A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; AGING; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; COGNITION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59949088843     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21047     Document Type: Article

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